On Saturday 26 July 2003 20:29, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the trouble i'm having (and the reason i sent this mail) is getting
> bootloaders working ;)  i fixed the zero-ing of ramdisks by using loopback,
> but now when i try to grub/lilo a loopback device, it (obviously) complains
> it doesnt know anything about a loopback device.  anyone ever try this kind
> of thing before ?  the idea is to produce the final image w/out ever

I believe that initrd was created for things like this. It should allow you to 
perform some manual action before the root filesystem is mounted. I do not 
however know exactly how it works.

Paul

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